Communications of the ACM
Innovation Is Overrated: A Provocation
Digital innovation is not working in the interest of the whole of society. It is time to radically rethink its purpose without…
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Fix Tech Staffing with Rightsizing, not Layoffs
With the latest downturn in the tech industry, analysts urge for rightsizing rather than laying off IT staff.
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Scientists Increasingly Cannot Explain How AI Works
AI researchers are warning developers to focus more on how and why a system produces certain results than the fact that the system can accurately and rapidly produce...
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Avoid Diluting Democracy by Algorithms
AI researchers tend to use the concepts of democracy and democratization in ways that are only loosely connected to their political and historical meanings.
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AI in Medicine Is Overhyped
AI models for healthcare that predict disease are not as accurate as reports might suggest.
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AI Model Transferability in Healthcare: A Sociotechnical Perspective
To realize the promised benefits of applying AI and ML models at scale, a roadmap of the challenges and potential solutions to sociotechnical transferability is...
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The Computer Scientist Who Is Boosting Privacy on the Internet
Harry Halpin has helped create a new kind of network that might enable more private Internet conversations.
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Intelligent Futures in Task Assistance
Applying lessons learned developing and deploying task management software.
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What Must All Post-Secondary Students Learn about Computing?
Expanding students' understanding of computing's potential.
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Video Game Players Avoid Gay Characters
A study of gamer behavior finds they shy away from gay characters, regardless of their strengths.
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AI Should Supercharge Workers, not Compete with Them
The economy could get a boost if machine-learning engineers switched from copying human abilities to augmenting them.
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Is This the Beginning of the End of the Internet?
How a single Texas ruling could change the Web forever.
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'We All Have A Part to Play in Fixing the Digital Skills Shortage'
Naomi Timperley, co-founder of Tech North Advocates and of GSI, talks about her work with tech startups, scaleups, and tomorrow's entrepreneurs.
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A Common-Sense Test for AI Could Lead to Smarter Machines
Injecting common sense into AI could mean big things for humans.
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Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Demos
One way to examine the relationship between AI and democracy is to turn the attention toward the very basic unit common to all forms of democracy: the people.
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Open-Endedness and Evolution through Large Models
A conversation with Joel Lehman, machine-learning scientist formerly of OpenAI and Uber AI Labs.
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What's Your Placebo?
The dangers of participation bias in educational studies.
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Storytelling and Science
Incorporating storytelling into organizational culture.
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We've Got Misinformation All Wrong
We must accept that misinformation is not one problem, but a whole set of problems.
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Democratization of AI Could Prevent the Great Resignation
To guard against the effect of the Great Resignation, enterprises need to reassess their training programs.
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